2026 ClassicsFest

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth, Peace in Our Time, Hay Fever (Classicsfest), John Gabriel Borkman (Classicsfest). Theatre credits include Hamlet in The Hamlet Project (Loose Canon Collective); Come Back, Little Sheba (A Noise Within); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (PCPA); As You Like It (Waterworks Theatre Company); Threepenny Opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Bacchae, Measure for Measure (UC Irvine); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Western Michigan University); Or What You Will (OSF Green Show); Titus Andronicus (Roundabout Theatre). Paul recently worked on a new HBO series, Videosyncrasy, with director, David Fincher. Other Film/TV credits include Danni Lowinski (CBS), All is Forgiven (Kitty Choir/End of May), Fetch (On Purpose Pictures), My Roommate The (Lucreative Productions), and more. He has studied at the British American Drama Academy and received a BA in Acting from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Acting from the University of California-Irvine.

AT ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Uncle Vanya, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Chekhov X 4. Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (MTC/SCR). Regional: The Great Leap (ACT-SF); Underneath the Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); After the Revolution (Center Stage Baltimore) Above the Fold (Pasadena Playhouse); Parfumerie(The Wallis: Inaugural Production); Coney Island Christmas(Geffen Playhouse); Future Thinking, Circle Mirror Transformation, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Wild Oats, (South Coast Rep); and others including productions for CTG, East/West Players, LATheatreCenter, Grove Shakespeare, El Teatro Campesino, The Odyssey Theatre, Stages Theatre Center (where he served as Managing Artistic Director 2000-2003), and Theatre@Boston Court. He has performed in dozens of plays recorded for LATheatreWorks. 
Arye has taught at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and was extremely fortunate to have studied acting with Lee Shallat-Chemel, Roy London, Jose Quintero, and James Wilson.
 Arye’s film/TV credits can be found here:
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Michael has been working with Antaeus since 2001 in A Tale of Charles Dickens, Chekhov x 4, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Henry IV. Other Theatre: Bent, What the Butler Saw, School of Night, The Goat (Mark Taper Forum), Dracula (LA Theatre Works), Tickled Pink (Laguna Playhouse) The American Plan, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello (Old Globe), Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kingsmen), The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse Stage), Leading Ladies (Barnstormers Theatre), Spite for Spite, Don Juan (Andak Stage Company) Off-Broadway: Othello, Richard III Film: Brown Paper Bag, Weekend at Jesus’, Hells Heart, Connected, Passing Normal, Chase The Slut, Benevolence. MFA Old Globe. For Heather, thanks for everything.

At Antaeus: The Winter's Tale, ClassicsFests: Candida, The Hot L Baltimore, and multiple in-house readings. Off-Broadway: Charlie Chaplin in My Man Kono (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, A.R.T./ New York Theatres; world premiere). Regional and Los Angeles credits include South Coast Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, East West Players, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Marriott Theatre, Quintessence Theatre Group, Theatre Mu, Perseverance Theatre, Northern Sky Theatre, Next Act Theatre, First Stage/ the Marcus Center, Classical Theatre Lab, and others. Trained under Philippe Gaulier at École Philippe Gaulier in France and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. 

At ANTAEUS: The Zip Code Plays Season 3, Hedda Gabler, The Curse of Oedipus; staged readings of Ghost Bicycle, Metamorphoses, Once in A Lifetime, The Lark, The Subject, and many more. California highlights include: South Coast Repertory (Our Town, Mr. Wolf, & many Pacific Playwright Festivals and NewSCRipts), Geffen Playhouse (Beheading Columbus, The Writers’ Room) The Old Globe (Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara (Crime and Punishment), San Jose Repertory (Sonia Flew), North Coast Repertory (String of Pearls), and work at Laguna Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, and Pasadena Playhouse. Elsewhere: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Merry Wives of Windsor), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest), La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop in collaboration with Mabou Mines, American Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, and more. In addition to commercial and TV work, nominated Best Actress for the short, Bonito Secrets; M.F.A. Harvard, B.A. Vassar. kwanamartinez.com

At ANTAEUS: The Liar, The Seagull, The Malcontent. Theater: Macbeth, Pericles, Eurydice, The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within; Hippolytos at the Getty Villa; Gruesome Playground Injuries at Rogue Machine; Othello, Fashion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; Stages at the Hudson Theatre; The Beaux Stratagem, Charles Mee’s Summertime, Butterfly Kiss, The Tempest, and Hamlet. Jules is also a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre where she has appeared in Becky’s New Car, Rachel Ray, Time of Your Life, Macbeth, Stanton’s Garage and The Contest which was followed by the critically acclaimed international premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TV: Friends With Better Lives, Teen Wolf, 10,000 Days, CSI. Film: Styria, You’re Still Here, Snake and Mongoose. Education: MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet (Hamlet), Measure for Measure (Angelo/Claudio), Henry IV, Part One (Hal), The Curse of Oedipus (Oedipus), Macbeth (Banquo), The Malcontent (Mendoza), King Lear (Edgar), host of The Zip Code Plays Podcast ; Other Theater: Kirk Douglas, Playwrights Arena,  NY Public, Kennedy Center, Signature,  NJSF, Ojai, O’neil, Yale, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi among others.  TV: Recurring roles on: 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Dynasty, MacGyver, Notorious, Counterpart, Major Crimes, Medium, Killer Instinct, Sons of Anarchy. Recent Guest Star: 911, Magnum PI,  Big Shot.  BFA: Carnegie Mellon.  Narrator of over 300 audiobooks, including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series. AWARDS: OBIE Award; 16 Earphones awards, Audie award, AudioFile “Golden Voice”- a lifetime achievement in the craft.  This is for Lauren, my hero. And Wilder, my muse. IG/TWTR/FB @ramondeocampo

At ANTAEUS: You Can’t Take It With You, Cousin Bette, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck. Other Theater: The Unexpected Man (Geffen Playhouse), Cloud 9 (LA Stage Company), Kalamazoo (Pacific Resident Theatre), Beyond Therapy (L.A. Public Theatre), The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Actor’s Theater of St Paul), Fiddler on the Roof (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation, House of Lies, CSI: Miami, The West Wing, Providence, American Zombie. Web Series: Aliens Anonymous, Empty Space, Riley Parra. Voiceover: Monsters University, WALL·E, Up, A Bug’s Life, Ben 10.

Los Angeles: Everybody, Zip Code Plays - 91505: Burbank "True Sound" (Antaeus Theater Company); August Wilson's "Seven Guitars'' (A Noise Within);  Beloved, At The Table (Stage Raw- Best Ensemble and Best Actress Nomination), Friends with Guns, Through the Eye of a Needle (The Road Theater); The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theater). Selected NY Credits: The Tragedy at Hood 14542: Hooksickle (International Fringe Festival), Ida B Wells: A Play in Four Parts (Afrikan Woman’s Repertory), Taming of The Shrew (Pulse Theater Ensemble), Timon in Athens (George Bernard Shaw Theater – UK). TV/Film: Black-ish, Jane the Virgin, Pearson, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Training: B.A. New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; Classical Acting – Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London; Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA. www.cherishmonqiueduke.net

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, readings of The Rover; Mayor of the 85th Floor. Frequent participant of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Other Theater: My Children, My Africa! (Marin Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); Exonerated (Lynx Performance Theatre); Good Breeding (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); Hamlet Machine (Ion Theatre). TV/Film: 40; Easy Made Hard; The Institute. Training: B.A., San Diego State University; M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater. Member: AEA, SAG.

Hearts like Planets (virtual, Chance Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Greenway Court); Othello (Griot Theatre); bled for the household truth (Rogue Machine); Still Life (Rogue Machine); The Hot L Baltimore (T. Schreiber); Two Rooms (The Seeing Place). Film/Episodic: Sole Proprietor (Insurgent Pictures); IRL (Cut To The Chase); Midnight Delight (Dot and Feather); Digital Physics (Philadelphia Philms); Shinobi Girl (Media Blasters). alexandrahellquist.com and @theahellquist

At ANTAEUS: Picnic, You Can’t Take It With You, The Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30, and many ClassicsFest readings and workshops. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse, The Public Theatre, Trinity Rep, Indiana Rep, Actors’ Theatre Of Louisville. Stages throughout Los Angeles including work with Evidence Room, Rogue Machine, East West Players, Boston Court, Actors’ Gang, Padua Playwrights, and Odyssey Theatre. Her work has garnered nominations and awards from LA Weekly, Backstage West, and LA Stage Alliance Ovations. Film and tv credits include Seinfeld, ER, The Marc Pease Experience and Love, Liza.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, As You Like It. Other Theater: Equus, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Accomplice, Pacific Overtures, Mother Tongue, Rashomon (East West Players); Bloodletting (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Playwrights Arena); Blood Wedding (Odyssey Theatre); Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre); Fish Head Soup (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/A Contemporary Theatre); The Wash (Studio Theatre, D.C.); Made in Bangkok (Mark Taper Forum); The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within); Romeo and Juliet (Lodestone Theatre Ensemble); The White Death (Catch A Star Theatrical (CAST, Catch A Star Theatrical Players). TV/Film: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Assassination of Gianni Versace, Get Shorty, The West Wing, Beyond the Next Mountain, Melrose Place, Coach, Family Law and The Defenders.

At ANTAEUS:  Henry IV, several ClassicsFests, many Workshops and Readings.  In Los Angeles theatre: Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, (Theatricum Botanicum); Estragon, Waiting for Godot; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; Malvolio, Twelfth Night; Vershinin, The Three Sisters; Arnolphe, The School For Wives; title roles in Cymbeline, Tartuffe, Merchant of Venice, among many others, at A Noise Within. Loads of NYC and regional theatre roles including leads in The Normal Heart, Talley’s Folly, and The Sound of Teeth.  Directed The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, Miss Witherspoon, The Learned Ladies, among bunches of other plays.  Has recurred and guest starred on tons of TV shows, like Charmed, Burn Notice, and Alias, had leading roles in many films and TV movies (Alice in Wonderland, The Lord of Illusions), and been heard in reams of animated projects, such as The Lorax, and scads of commercials.

At ANTAEUS: The Importance of Being Earnest, All My Sons. OTHER LA THEATRE CREDITS: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (A Noise Within), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (The Odyssey), A Christmas Carol (A Noise Within). Michael recently worked on the HBO Max series Hacks. He is a graduate of USC's School of Dramatic Arts and The Second City Conservatory program.

Julia Fletcher has been a theater professional for more than 35 years, working in new play development, as an adapter of the works of Shakespeare, as a director, an Equity stage manager, and a master teacher. She trained and worked as an actor with the American Conservatory Theatre, and has performed with the Old Globe, the Intiman, San Jose Rep, ACT/Seattle, Antaeus, P.C.P.A., and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, among others. She was also the Founding Artistic Director of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles.

At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus. Recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theater), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco); Henry V and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello (California Shakespeare Festival); the Denver Theatre Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; the Long Wharf Theatre; the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); and PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity, The Farm. Recent TV: Call Me Kat, Modern Family, Rake. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till.

Stephanie Shroyer’s directing endeavors with Antaeus include: Seneca’s Phaedra at The Getty Villa in Malibu, CA and The Bear in ChekovX4. Former Artistic Director of Pacific Resident Theatre and Founding Artistic director of The 24th Street Theatre. Additional work includes directorial efforts at the Pasadena Playhouse, Disney Hall/The LA Philharmonic Youth ConcertSeries,The Matrix, A Noise Within, Alliance Repertory, 24th Street Theater, Pacific Resident Theatre (PRT), Stages, South Coast Repertory’s New Play Reading Series, and Showtime’s Act One Series.  Stephanie has been a company member, actor, choreographer and/or faculty member at American Conservatory Theatre, Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts, and The Denver Center; has been guest faculty at Cal Arts, Cal Poly Pomona and Whitman College and is currently an Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Artistic Director at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts. Additional choreography/movement coaching has been seen at The Wallis Annenberg, A Noise Within, The Odyssey, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, Laguna Playhouse and on NBC’s Days of Our Lives.